Resume Advice

[Prudence]

I'm more accustomed to the multi-page everything-you've-ever-done-in-your-life resumes because that's what they do where I work. Switching over to the one-pager for legal jobs sucks.

The biggest problem with constructing my legal resume is that firms expect that students don't have that much experience, so they expect a one-page resume; if you're a student and you turn in more than that, as you legitimately might if you were an experienced partner or associate, it's assumed that you simply don't know what you're doing and your resume goes right into the round file without a second glance. But part of my marketing of me is that I *do* have prior work experience and skills that will translate to my new career, so I'm a better deal than the 25-year old grads whose mommies and daddies paid for their education and who have never put in an 8-hour day, much less a 12 or 16-hour day. (This sort really do exist in my school, and in alarming numbers.) And getting that info into a one-page format just.plain.sucks.